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amatwl
·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The United States government is an insurance company with an army.
amatwl
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
For the record, NT comes from the codename for the Intel i860 (N10) which was the original target platform for NT.
amatwl
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
NetDocs was an effort in 2000/2001 that is sometimes characterized as a web productivity suite. There was an internal battle between the Netdocs and Office groups, and Office won.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/netdocs-microsofts-net-poster-...

https://www.eweek.com/development/netdocs-succumbs-to-xp/
amatwl
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
There was reporting that they were scrambling to move some infrastructure off Google since they were going to be cut off after refusing to pay their bills. The deadline was June 30, though there was additional reporting saying Linda Yaccarino restarted payments - https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-google-clo...
amatwl
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Yep, for the record, the project was while I was still at a defense contractor :).
amatwl
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I literally worked on a project two years ago that was still using CORBA. Oof.
amatwl
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
All voice assistants seem bad, but Siri seems particularly bad. God forbid I ask it to do something simple such as playing a specific artist or album on Apple Music or ask it to turn off lights I've configured in the Home app.

"Siri, please turn off all the lights in my apartment."

"Sure, which room?"

Sigh.
amatwl
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Footage on Shuttle SRBs was recorded onboard and downloaded when recovered. SLS' SRBs are not recovered, so no footage.
amatwl
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Eh, there's a difference between criticizing your boss publicly vs privately.
amatwl
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
IIRC, Twitter was operating at a loss, prior to the closing of Elon's purchase.

See Q2 2022 Results here, net loss was $270 million -https://s22.q4cdn.com/826641620/files/doc_financials/2022/q2...

It's still an open question whether Twitter will succeed with Elon, but it definitely wasn't a healthy company prior to the purchase.
amatwl
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
The coalition supporting SLS in Congress is much broader than just Senator Shelby, though he's definitely one of the biggest proponents - an old school Senator purely motivated bringing home the money to his state. There are plenty of SLS advocates in both the Senate and House - SLS is not going anywhere just yet.
amatwl
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
IIRC - Shuttle autoland capability was vetoed by the Astronaut Office. There was some capability within the guidance software for it, but it was never demonstrated (some early Shuttle flights got close to demonstrating it though).
amatwl
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
In my experience, the hesitancy to contribute/ pay open source projects comes more from the contractors versus the government.
amatwl
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Except there are already some House Republicans publicly discussing a nationwide ban on abortion - guaranteed it's going to be on the agenda if Republicans take back Congress (which is highly likely). Also, it's not exactly easy to move to another state.
amatwl
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
The Astronaut Office pushed strongly against an autoland capability for Shuttle.